We love Umbraco Contour at Moriyama, the power that it gives editors to create and quickly roll out forms.
Sometimes though it isn’t quite the right fit. From time to time we want to roll out a form that isn’t editable by users, that has a complex integration that doesn’t merit the creation of contour custom field type or workflow.
Also, sometimes our client side guys can’t quite live with the GUID input field identifiers and inline JavaScript that contour can somehow generate.
It is easy enough to implement a nice clean, well marked up form in Umbraco, but the killer feature of Contour that you lose is CSV export. Our customers love that they can grab this data in a spreadsheet at any time of day or night and quickly see who has filled

This is part 2 of
A Simple Umbraco cart with Doc Cart, Contour and Bill4u
In this screencast we look at simple stock control using uCounters.
Firstly this is in two parts - Camtasia flipped out on me and I
lost the half of the screencast.
Also apologies for repeated (mis) use of the phrase
Stock control unit when it should
obviously be stock keeping unit - i'm no commerce guru when it
comes to selling traditional goods.

I haven't blogged for a while and one of the reasons is that
I've been working on
Bill4U - a billing system based on Umbraco.
Bill4U is targeted at small businesses and freelancers who
generate a relatively small amount of invoices each month. It
allows you to quickly bill customers from the Umbraco dashboard,
simplifies repetitive tasks like repeat billing and allows you to
quickly and easily create order forms on your website using Umbraco
Contour.
Out of the box you can... (screencast)
EU VAT validation (screencast)
Billing forms with Contour (screencast)
Currency conversion XSLT extensions (screencast)
Customise the Bill4U menu (screencast)
Extending Bill4U (screencast)
You can download